The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-31
PERSONAL.

R. P. Berry, of the Central House, AL
fred, is dangerously i'll.
Rev. c. V. Hanson of Damariscotta has
accepted the call to Providence, r. l.
Railroad Commissioners Wildes and Mort
land are at the Preble House.
DR.. Charles A. Ring has practically re-
gained his usual health, and is once more
able to attend to professional duties.
c. II. Mitchell's resignation as clerk in the
post Office has been asked by Postmaster
Palmer.
DR.. E. w. Chase, assistant physician at
the Marine Hospital, has resigned, and gone
to Topeka, Kan, to practice his profession.
Mrs. Mary A. Liyermore will lecture in
Saco February list, on THE Boys of To-
day."
Mr.. e. f. King of Bangor one of the pos
tai clerks on the route between Bangor and
Vanceboro, was in the city Saturday.
Charles Haynes Case, formerly resident
OF Waterville and student of Colby Uni
versity, died in Pasadena, CAL, Jan. 1,
1887, in his Goth year.
Mr.. w. III. Hobbs of this city win be at
Ormond, Fla, during the month of Febru-
at Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr.. Frederic Durham, of Tenney & Dun
ham, is suffering from a severe attack of
nervous prostration. DIR. T. A. Foster at
tends him.
The Maine Medical School at Brunswick
begins next Thursday and will continue
twenty weeks. The Introductory lecture
Will be given by DR.. Henry H. Hunt of this
city.
Mr.. Royal Quimby, late of the Hotel
North, at Augusta, is at the City Hotel.
MI Quimby is one of the best known and
most popular of the Maine hotel proprietors,
and his host of friends hope soon to see him
In active business again in the hotel line.
Word lately received from Perkinsville,
VT, announces the severe and it is feared
fatal illness of Rev. Henry M. Hopkinson, a
gentleman well known in Baptist circles, and
graduate of Colby in the class of ,6S. Mr..
Hopkinson is the gentleman with whom
Moung Ryan made his trip to this country,
Mr.. Hopkinson being at the time engaged in
the missionary work at Bassein, Burmah.
Mr.. j. F. Libby of Locke's Mills, who
was graduated from Bowdoin College in the
class OF 1882 is meeting with excellent sue,
cess as principal of the schools at Gorham,
n Ii. He has graded the schools of the
town, work which is, as it ought to be,
highly appreciated by the citizens of the
place. Mr.. Libby is gentleman Of schol-
arly attachments, and thorough discipline
rian.
Mrs. Caroline K. Newman, widow of the
late Prof. S. p. Newman of Bowdoin Col
lege, died at Brunswick January 23d, aged
S9years days. The Telegraph says that
Mrs Newman's death breaks the last link in
the connection which existed between the
heads of families of the college professors OF
the past and of the present. Mrs Newman
was sister of the late Governor Kent and
had lived in Brunswick &C years.
The Sunday Globe says: "All the com.
rades in the Department of Massachusetts:
who rejoiced Friday morning to learn of the
election of the genial ''DIck" Galley of Port
land, department commander of Maine
were panied to read in the morning paper:
yesterday that he had lost his loved wifi
| whom he was at home attending in wha
| proved to be her last illness. The true sol
dierly sympathy Of every comrade goes ou
to the stricken comrade in this the hour of hi.
| great affection"